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Tag: science fiction
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Review: Predatory Practices
One of the nice things about going to cons, I’ve discovered, is that you meet people. Sometimes they turn out to be really funny, nice people who also can write very well. I’m fascinated by today’s example, because he grew up with a great SFF writer for a parent. Edward Stasheff’s father, Christopher, wrote many…
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Stark Contrasts
One thing is clear: a lot of people involved with the Hugo Awards care very much about the award. One other thing is also clear: a lot of people not involved with the award also seem to care very much. And another thing is clear, at least to me: much, if not all of…
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18 Hard Science Fiction Books
We determined in discussions at the Mad Genius Club post on Saturday that defining what a ‘hard science’ story is, and isn’t… is nebulous. I’d been told that aliens and faster-than- light travel were off limits for this style of story telling. I was delighted to learn that not everyone feels that way. Beginning on…
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Reading at the Table
Today’s Eat This While You Read That is up at Otherwhere Gazette. I made Brad Torgerson’s old family recipe and added a new one of my own to accompany it. I recommend Racers of the Night to read with this meal!
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Science Fiction Question
My mother and I have been talking about small livestock – it’s her specialty – and space colonization. She brought something up, and the only title that leaped to my mind was Dave Freer’s Slow Train to Arcturus. Only (it’s been a while since I read that) I think the segments of that generation ship that…
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LTUE AAR
I’m home from the trip to Utah. I have learned a lot: Provo has the most amazing mountains looming over it, and fantastic restaurants (I think we did our best to eat our way around the world). I also learned that as I was told, LTUE is not a fan con. It is a symposium…
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For Me, But Not For Thee – David Pascoe
I should preface this by mentioning that I had never seen the first three until I was nineteen, and they stuck me in the Electronics dept of the store I was working in, and it was me, and a tall geeky guy who sadly I have forgotten his name, but he was very nice to…
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Divertissments
A Papery Feel Would any of you, dear Readers, be interested in a Cyber Monday sale on my books, signed and shipped on that coming week? This ought to guarantee arrival in time for Christmas. Of course, you can always give ebooks in mere moments, but sadly, signing electrons is beyond my abilities! I have…
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Review: Nothing in Common
I’ve been racking my brain for something these two books have in common, and can’t figure anything out. Only that both authors are veterans. Otherwise… polar opposites. Oh, and both fun to read for me. You all know already that I’ll read almost anything right? So a bildungsroman science fiction novel and a steamy romance…
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Monday
Monday is not a kind day to me, this semester. After years of running a business where Monday was essentially my weekend (coming as it does after two-three days of performing) I have four classes and have to be ‘on’ from 8:30 to 9 for those classes. Which is why you’re going to start seeing…
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Medicine and Healing in SFF
Hattip to Michael Kabongo for the topic suggestion. After three(ish) days sick now, this is a timely topic. One of my favorite SF series on this topic is James White’s Sector General books. White’s stories center on the classification of species of aliens, inter-species relationships, and the psychology of the doctors and nurses tending them.…